The national color Tianxiang, the king of flowers, and the peony of Zi Yan red also move the capital in Chinese paintings

Peony is a famous flower unique to the mainland, and has been cultivated in the mainland for more than 1500 years. It has a wide variety of flowers and rich flowers, and is known as "the national color of heavenly fragrance" and the reputation of "the king of flowers".

Peony flowers are also known as: rat girl, deer leek, white antler, wood peony, hundred rain gold, Luoyang flower, rich flower.

Peony flower flower: Peony flower is the king of a hundred flowers, has the meaning of perfection, wealth, grace and luxury. The peony flower also symbolizes expectation, a faint love, a person who pays with his heart, is pure and trustworthy.

Liu Yuxi of the Tang Dynasty has a poem: "The peony medicine demon in front of the court has no qualifications, and the pond is pure and unsympathetic." Only the peony is the true national color, and the flowers move the capital during the blossom season. ”

From ancient times to the present, the culture and paintings related to peonies are abundant. Presented today is the famous painter Mr. Xiao Lang's small freehand peony Chinese paintings.

Peony cultivation originated in Heluo and has a history of more than 1,600 years. Peony cultivation as an ornamental plant began in the Southern and Northern Dynasties. According to wei xuan in the Tang Dynasty, "Northern Qi Yang Zihua painted peonies very clearly. Zihua North Qi people, then know peony for a long time. According to Xie Kangle in the Taiping Imperial Records, "During the Southern Song Dynasty, there were many peonies in the water-level bamboo in Yongjia (around present-day Wenzhou). ”

In the Tang Dynasty, palace temples, rich family courtyards and folk cultivation of peonies were very common.

In the Song Dynasty, the peony cultivation center was moved from Chang'an to Luoyang, the cultivation technology was more systematic and perfect, the research on peony was greatly improved, and a number of theoretical monographs appeared.

During the Northern Song Dynasty, the scale of Luoyang peony was unprecedented. They used the grafting method to fix the bud changes and excellent varieties, which was the most prominent contribution of the Northern Song Dynasty.

Peony is not only a favorite flower of the Chinese people, but also cherished by people around the world. Overseas peony horticultural varieties, all originally from China.

Xiao Lang (1917-2010), courtesy name Yinluan, Zilang, owner of Pingxiang Pavilion, a native of Beijing, a member of the China Artists Association, and an outstanding art educator in China. He studied under Wang Xuetao and received guidance from Qi Baishi, Wang Mengbai, Chen Banding and others. Xiao Lang is focused and good at small freehand painting of flowers and birds.